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Palm Springs Moderism Week Feb. 14-24 |
Jetson
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 17, 2009
Posts: 219
From: PALM SPRINGSVILLE
|  Posted: 2012-02-04 5:33 pm Permalink
Going to be another great year. Already gearing up for this year's festivities.
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Tangaroa-Ru
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 04, 2006
Posts: 376
From: Surf's Up, Los Angeles!
| Posted: 2012-02-06 4:35 pm Permalink
Is it my imagination, or does this year's Modernism Week seems to have even more Tiki than usual? Besides the M Modern Sven happening, our favorite Aquaticat, Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid, will be part of Vintage Roadside's lecture AND will be performing down there on 2/24. Mermaid in the desert! Hope to see some of you down there!
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Miss Hell
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 02, 2012
Posts: 68 | Posted: 2012-02-07 08:17 am Permalink
I'm excited that Charles Phoenix will be there hosting a slide show.
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WooHooWahine
Grand Member (7 years) 
Joined: Mar 04, 2005
Posts: 2901
From: Mission (Impossible) Viejo, Ca
| Posted: 2012-02-13 12:44 pm Permalink
4 More Days.....WooHoooo!!! 
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martini kings
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Joined: Nov 10, 2005
Posts: 507
From: anthony marsico
| Posted: 2012-02-16 11:38 am Permalink
martini kings will be going heavy on the palm springs type swanky tunes this friday night at M modern gallery for modernism week. drop by and see your favorite artists , sven and the martini kings.
music from 8pm till 11pm.
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-02-16 12:43 pm Permalink
Yeaaaah !!!
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On 2012-02-16 11:38, martini kings wrote:
...drop by and see your favorite artists: Sven and the Martini Kings.
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Just to dispel any possible rumors: No, I am not gonna be crooning that nite!  
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HB TIKI
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Dec 12, 2008
Posts: 643 | Posted: 2012-02-16 4:47 pm Permalink
Looking forward to attending Modernism and the Tiki Art show.
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zond2
Grand Member (2 years) 
Joined: Jun 30, 2007
Posts: 123
From: Casa Grande
| Posted: 2012-02-16 6:04 pm Permalink
Packing the bags tonight!
First off to Salvation MTN followed by the mud pots by Niland and some post apocalyptic photos at Bombay Beach. Then it's off to PS, check in, change into something festive and off to the show at M. Might try to take some snaps but doubt I'll capture anything quite like Cherry Capri's indian leg wrestling from the opening night @ M 2 years ago.
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martini kings
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 10, 2005
Posts: 507
From: anthony marsico
| Posted: 2012-02-17 07:30 am Permalink
Did someone mention Witco???????????
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WooHooWahine
Grand Member (7 years)
Joined: Mar 04, 2005
Posts: 2901
From: Mission (Impossible) Viejo, Ca
| Posted: 2012-02-17 08:29 am Permalink
iViva Palm Springs WooHoo!
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-02-20 09:20 am Permalink
What a great Palm Springs weekend. For a couple of days, one gets to live a midcentury-modern dream life. There are so many kindred spirits in one place here, and they love to share their treasures.
It all began with the opening of my Contemporary Idol show at M-modern:
As we always do, we stayed at my old friend Pete Moruzzi's house:
Pete wrote "Havana Before Castro", and I photographed it. Our next book will be on classic dining in America, and it will contain mostly my photos, some of them taken at the Mai Kai. Pete had gotten himself a new toy:
A 1965 Buick Riviera with clam shell headlights!
What a beaut!
I love going window shopping (rarely can afford anything there) at the Modernism show at the Convention Center:
MCM dealers from all over the country have their stalls there:
My wife volunteers at the P.S. modcom booth:
Here are some of the cool things I liked at this year's show:
Up next: The big bash, the annual P.S. Modcom benefit party!
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-02-20 12:04 pm Permalink
After the show we went home to get ready for the evening's festivities, which started out with a little reception at the Gand's Alexander A-frame:
Here's Gary Gand's Studebaker Avanti in front of their house. Gary did a book with Julius Shulman on Chicago mid-century modernism. Here is their house as seen from the backyard...
...which is inhabited by quite a few Tikis:
The big event of the evening was the Palm Springs Modcom party at a house at the Tamarisk Country Club:
This year's theme was Blake Edwards' film "The Party"
They used several concepts from the movie:
White balloons for soap bubbles in the pool
This guy has a brief role in the film...
The best idea was the drinking, drunken waiter "running gag":
Life imitating art:
Naomi wore this fantastic Rudi Gernreich dress from Audrey Moorehead's vintage Gernreich collection:
We were happy we got to know Heather David and her husband:
Heather authored "Mid-Century by the Bay" http://www.calmodbooks.com/, a book I have always admired.
Above and below are my two favorite pics I got to snap that evening.
Next: More Mod Sunday
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Big Kahuna
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Joined: Apr 11, 2007
Posts: 1908
From: SoMass
| Posted: 2012-02-20 5:00 pm Permalink
WOW!
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Slacks Ferret
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Joined: Oct 02, 2003
Posts: 1172
From: Calgary
| Posted: 2012-02-20 5:48 pm Permalink
Great pics! Thanks for those.
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Queen Kamehameha
Grand Member (7 years)
Joined: Oct 21, 2003
Posts: 1370
From: So Cal
| Posted: 2012-02-20 6:16 pm Permalink
Hi Sven, Thanks for posting these. I know how tired you must be. These photos are magnificent! Love the Buick Riviera!
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